Restore and Enhance those old photos with Handy Photo

Earlier this week, ADVA Soft released Handy Photo, an all-in-one photo editing app for your iOS device. Like so many apps, Handy Photo [App Store Link] isn't just for photos taken with an iPhone. With support for up to 36 megapixels, Handy Photo can used used on just about any image you care to throw at it, and as my photo shows, that includes those old and damaged ones stored away in the shoebox.

So, how did I repair and enhance this old and damaged photo? First I cropped the photo, then using the "Retouch" tool, I painstakingly highlighted and repaired the creases and damaged areas (a bit at a time), before using the apps filters to apply a sepia effect and vignette, to give the already aged photo that enhanced aged look. And how long did it take me to do all this? Answer, about 15 minutes, which I think is pretty impressive.

Above: The original scanned image, and the repaired, un-enhanced version.

So, why not try restoring and enhancing your old photos,

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This week "Through the Lens of an iPhone"

If you would like to see more submissions, then head over to the Flickr group, or click on any of the photos you see, to see that iPhoneographers Flickr stream.

Want to get involved? Then head over to the Flickr group and join up, then read the simple rules and start uploading, but remember, all photos must be taken and processed on an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad (NO DSLR photos please).

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PictureDefense helps you with your stolen photos

Ever had a photo stolen from your online presence and published without your permission, or even worst, passed off as someone else's work, and wondered what you could do about it? Well, a new free service and website from PhotoTips James Beltz has been setup to help.

PictureDefense.com will help guide you through what you need to do if…

• Someone's Facebook profile, fan page, or group
• Any website hosted and owned by Google. Like Blogger, Blogspot, YouTube, and Google+
• Any website owned by Yahoo like Flickr.com
• Another photographer's free standing website
• Used in a web advertisement on a business website

For more information, or to bookmark this essential website, click here.

Handy Photo, an impressive set of editing tools in one new & handy app

From the developers of TouchRetouch and AntiCrop comes a new suite of powerful editing tools in one simple to use and handy app, Handy Photo.

Handy Photo includes ADVA Soft's powerful, tried and trusted TouchRetouch and AntiCrop tools, alongside a new Move Me tool, a new simple yet powerful photo editor, and much more.

There are many things to be impressed about this app, not least the price tag, of just £1.49/$1.99/€1.59 and support for images of up to 36 megapixels on any of Apples latest iDevices (iPhone 5/iPad 3/iPad 4).

Handy Photo's key features include:

• Move Me technology for intellectual objects extraction and moving
• Magic Crop tool with unique photo “un-cropping” function
• The best retouching technology for mobile platforms
• Impressive collection of professional photo filters 
• Complete sets of high quality textures and frames
• 100% size image viewing 
• Up to 36 MP support
• Optimized for multi-core and GPU processors 
• Stylish and intuitive UI

For a full review of Handy Photo, check out Marty Yawnick's 5 star review over on Life in LoFi.

App Store Link: Handy Photo; Price: £1.49/$1.99/€1.59

Marksta updated with IPTC & GPS support

Marksta from photographer John D McHugh, which has become my copyright app of choice has just been updated, and now offers full IPTC & GPS support. So whether you shoot, edit and share with an iPhone, or shoot with a DSLR and edit/share via an iPad, Marksta is the perfect solution to your copyright needs.

So, what's new in this version of Marksta?

• New 'Metadata' feature shows all Exif and IPTC data
• Full IPTC metadata editing now supported
• IPTC templates now supported (including sharing on iCloud)
• GPS location can now be shown, moved or removed on a full-screen map
• Text and images can now be rotated to any angle
• Drop shadow colour can now be changed (independently of the text colour)

App Store Link: Marksta; Price: £1.49/$1.99/€1.59